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Waterblocks? Please. That's so 2002. It's all about liquid nitrogen now.

Yep. All in the name of overclocking and "more = better". After all, active cooling has to be better than passive, right? 8)

Tony and free's aggressive vs conservative read/write strategies explain the physically slower write phenomenon, but we should remember that in practice, caching allows writes to be much faster than reads in most I/O situations (UPS suggested for critical data), mitigating the effect of slower...

Tannin, the blank cheque's in the mail :)

Happy New Year guys!

Fortron and Sparkle are both made by FSP group. The brand name doesn't automatically determine the loudness of the PSU's (e.g., Sparkle = loud). They each have their silent models, value model, and high performance models. A FSP with an adjustable speed 120 mm fan is said to be one of the better...

Santa went all out this year for me. I made off like a bandit: - parents bought me a very nice dining room set for my new condo - a friend of mine from uni moved back into town - a bunch of my other closest uni friends are back in town to visit... we had a great time last night - this was a NO...

You just found that every morning, you listen to the same four songs in order? It took you, what, twenty-two consecutive days with the same routine before you took a step back and said "hey, these are the same songs as yesterday, and the day before, and the day before that"? :lol: (j/k Dave)...

DLP RPTV?

Don't. Feed.

Did we learn nothing from the Hindenburg? :) (of course, those H2 devotees among us will point out that H2 was not to blame)

Does licking it repeatedly with my tongue count? Woof! Seriously, no, I didn't lap my heatsinks (as usual).

And BTW, that is using the generic white thermal grease that came with the package.

I have been using 2x Tt SilentBoost HSF's in my desktops for quite a while now (one of them combined with a Tt DuctingMod with the rear case fan blowing cold air straight into the intake side of the duct where the Panaflo LAC ring cage fan is mounted. Without the DuctingMod, it gives you about...

Can you buy a Zalman Fanmate and try it out? I use 2-3 Fanmates in each desktop to adjust each case/CPU fan individually to my liking.

Merc, Yes, I know the type of CS grad to which you refer, although I am not a CS grad myself. (I re-read my previous post; it seems like I said I was a Windows-trained CS grad. What I meant was that I was never had any formal UNIX or CS training) A surprising amount of people I know went into...

LOL... See your own quote below in case you forgot how you're different that most of us Linux dabblers: You're practically begging me to PM you with all my problems during my next stab at Linux :) Heh, those are some good apps, but I have no need for them. Never had any virus problems with...

Acrobat 4 forever! I've been using Acrobat 4.05 since I installed W2k and will continue to do so as long as possible. It is annoying when some PDF files are not backwards compatible with 4.0, but those are mostly e-books and other crap that involves some form of DRM.

Ah, yes, the sound of a coffee can muffler on a tiny four-banger...

What, you mean you've seen him in Woodbridge driving a lowered Honda Civic? :mrgrn:

Living the good life out there in Cali, are we? Bastard... :evil: :wink:

Gasp! Thou shalt not invoke our resident curmudgeon's name to endorse just any product! Shame on you. 8)

e_dawg's first bone to pick witht Linux: if the damn thing won't work on supposedly supported hardware despite futzing around with it for weeks, it's not fit for public consumption. Admittedly, I am lacking a certain Linux kung-fu, but I am disappointed that despite numerous tries with various...

Actually, I don't know... what have you heard? Got my trusty O'Reilly books to guide me through it....by this time next year I should be tar'ing this, awk'ing that. Well guess who will be coming over to your house with his PC for Linux help :mrgrn:

Please. Crippled? What hard drives can actually push > 33 MB/s sustained in daily (i.e., not just sequential I/O) usage. Interface bandwidth has a minimal impact on real world I/O performance when it is so much greater than actual real world disk-to-buffer throughput. And besides, W2k has always...

Indeed. I have had nothing but bad things to say about X on penguin OSes. They are like the Mac from 1995-2002 -- full of hype, empty on promises.

Fascinating this pattern of 3's... Apparently, NT 4 wasn't so hot until after several service packs came out. W2k IMO was usable right from the start. I started using NT 4 when SP3 or 4 was out and actually used NT 4 Workstation as my main OS for a year when 95B would crash incessantly on my...

Tony, the Craig which I am referring to is Craig Barrett, who took over for Andy Grove some time ago. Craig who? It's tough taking over for a legend when you're a nobody. Jeffrey Immelt is in the same position over at GE, having taken over for the legendary Jack Welch. As for taking credit for...

Now to ruin a perfectly good monologue... These days, it should be "Craig giveth and Steve taketh away" (although nobody would know what you're talking about)

Hey, you're preaching to the choir here. I have been singing the praises of W2k for god knows how long... ... but you're right about the stupidity that is the installer requiring that SCSI drivers be installed from a floppy. I have often wondered about that myself. Apparently, you can...

It seems that you haven't lost your touch either, Tony ;)

So are you going to send me the link to your ftp server or what? :)

Indeed. This reivewer captured the sentiment perfectly:

Just a question: what is an "opinino"? A mini opinion? :)

So now I know how to smuggle drugs into the US... :)

I thought it dragged a bit, especially near the end... a good 10 min could have been edited out of this movie to make it shorter. I could hear everybody in the theater shifting around in their seats the last 30-40 min, and a surprising number of people were complaining about it on the way out (I...

Thank you, my avian-simian friend.

... but really, do you need an LED to tell you that your computer is on?

So does the Gigabyte 7N400-Pro2.

Actually, to tell you the truth, i bet most women don't really engage in any fashion jargon. I think as long as it looks "cute", "hot", is the right colour, or matches particular items of their wardrobe, they are happy. It's not about the specs... somehow you just gotta know what looks good. I...

Whoops, I meant Spring 2004 (man it's hard to keep all these lies straight) :)

I suspect part of it is due to the subject matter -- no, not poop, but computers. And not just computers... computers at a level that goes beyond the average computer guy in one's group of friends, and an unhealthy obsession with storage. It takes a special and rare kind of woman to enjoy such...

Nah, he's got a super duper 'scope. Where were you guys? :) Tony, those pics are wonderful. Can't wait for your full pictorial of Australia. You could sell that thing on the Internet for good money if these pics are representative of the rest of your collection.

Yes, I will definitely consider T-8 ballasts when I move to a new house; the condo unit I just bought is devoid of any flourescent lighting fixtures. Mostly halogens and regular A-type incandescents (which I will replace with GE Reveal bulbs before I replace them entireley -- probably with...

It is interesting that we are all within a tight range... 130-140, mostly. Can we draw any conclusions from that? Perhaps people with lower IQ don't understand what the heck we're talking about, and people with higher IQ don't care about what we're talking about :)

Well I have to thank you (and company) for shedding some light on the situation, because I would have still been in the dark with respect to my lighting choices if I didn't read about superior options here. (sorry about the puns... they were just too easy) The unfortunate part of this, however...

... of course what I meant by that was that emode reports the upper range of your IQ score and not your actual score.... but then again, you probably knew that because you're all veritable geniuses ;)

Hmm... I got 131, Visual mathematician. I also smell something fishy, because I suck at math. These math questions are some of the easiest I've seen in a while. I got rocked on the math section of the SAT and the GMAT. I think I got somewhere in the 50-ish percentile range in both, yet 90-95th...

How can you forget the bouncy "Jingle bell jingle bell jingle bell rock..." with its xmas-cool rhythm guitar licks... or the deliciously naughty (for the 50's) "Santa baby"? :mrgrn:

Very nice... You two make a lovely couple... Congrats!